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Africa grants freedom to anti-apartheid leaders SOWETO, South Africa (AP) — Eight leaders of the anti-apartheid movement became free men Sun day, seven of them after at least 25 years in jail, and told rejoicing sup porters that equality for blacks in South Africa is in reach. Walter Sisulu, 77, a friend and colleague of African National Con gress leader Nelson Mandela, proudly presided over the first news conference held by the organization in South Africa since it was banned in 1960. “Our determination has never been weakened by our long years of imprisonment,” Sisulu told scores of reporters and hundreds of ANC fol lowers who packed a church hall. “We have been strengthened by the developments in our country and our own clear vision of the future.” Some in the crowd wept as the freed prisoners, raising clenched fists, led their supporters in singing “God Bless Africa,” the anthem of the anti-apartheid movement. Sisulu and six other ANC mem bers were freed early Sunday. Also freed was Jafta Masemola, 58, of the Pan Africanist Congress, a smaller guerrilla movement. All were freed unconditionally, having refused pre vious offers of freedom in exchange for renouncing violence. -ledgovenl The releases are viewed as a tacit acknowledgement by the govern ment of the ANC’s influence and popularity among South Africa’s black majority. Even relatively con servative black leaders have said they will reject any negotiations with the government unless the ANC is legal ized and its jailed leaders freed. Sisulu and his colleagues, seated They said the ANC, the I group fighting the white-I merit, will continue its military! paign and reject calls for negoi tions until the government! it, lifts the state of emergency,a releases all political prisoners. “If the government doesn’t i our demands, we have noalternan, but to continue to fight forourf dom,” Andrew Mlangeni,63,sai( Five of the ANC men, Sisulu and Mlangeni, werearrestj in 1963 and sentenced tolifepri terms in 1964, along with M for plotting anti-government otage. Fed bank ready to lay out cash to avoid another "Black Monday’ WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve put out word Sun day that it stands ready to flood the banking system with money to pre vent the second-biggest point drop in the history of the stock market from developing into something The Fed commitment came as the Bush administration continued its own efforts to reassure investors reeling from Friday’s 190-point plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average. White House Budget Director Richard Darman, who in recent weeks has been critical of the Fed’s handling of monetary policy, ex pressed total confidence Sunday that the central bank and other govern ment officials will do all that is nec essary to contain the market turmoil. pling the entire country into a reces sion. While a Fed move to inject mas sive amounts of cash into the bank ing system cannot by itself push stock prices higher, it does provide a measure of confidence that the gov ernment is prepared to counteract the damaging effects to the economy from a sudden loss of billions of dol lars of wealth in stock prices. The Fed’s action to supply cash on a liberal basis to the banking system serves to reassure nervous bankers that they do not need to be panicked into cutting off credit to brokerage houses and securities firms suffering heavy losses from a plunge ins prices. Brokerage firms, assured ofalis of credit from their bankers, a forced to sell off stocks as the pii plunges simply to replenish thd own dwindling supplies of Such waves of forced stock salesa have the unintended effect of dm ing stock prices down even further.I The Fed official said theU.S.o tral bank had been in touch i«| centr al banks in Japan and and had received assurances froi them that those officials stoodre| to supply needed cash. Darman said that Treasury Secre tary Nicholas Brady, Federal Re serve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Richard Breeden, the new chairman of the Securities and Ex change Commission, were keeping in close contact monitoring devel opments. “I am sure they will do what is right, what is prudent, what is sensi ble,” Darman said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week with David Brinkley.” Meanwhile, a senior Fed official said Sunday that the central bank in tended to follow the example that Greenspan set following the October 1987 market crash. “We will be there with all the liq uidity demand that is needed,” the official said, who spoke on condition that his name not be used. “If there are any doubts about liquidity being available, there is no reason to be concerned.” Liquidity refers to the ready avail ability of cash. The Greenspan-led effort two years ago was widely credited with keeping the 508-point plunge of Oc tober 1987 from wrecking havoc on the banking system and perhaps top- Communist influences will linger in Hungary BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — It only took a three-day meeting for the Communists to scrap their party, but it could take years to remove the influence of more than four decades of Communist rule in Hungary. The Communist Party, for mally the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, was declared dead at a historic congress a week ago that gave birth to the Hun garian Socialist Party. Spurred by upcoming free elections, the congress heeded re formers’ calls for a party with democratic aspirations that would be more appealing to the electo rate than a monolithic Marxist- Leninist party. The elections are due by June. Reform has been in the wind in Hungary for the past several years, even before Mikhail S. Gorbachev decreed changes in the Soviet Union. The most blatant Stalinist man ifestations — personality cults, workers’ brigades, a repressive se cret police — were done away with under the late Janos Kadar. But real reform gathered stean: only after Raster was retired last | year after 32 years at the helm. The collective leadership suc ceeding Kadar decided liberaliza tion was the only way to counter | serious economic problems, permitted political opposition lo I flourish for the first time since the Communists consolidated] power in 1948, and it pledged) permit the country’s first free na tional elections in 41 years. Such developments have] placed Hungary on the varig of democratization within the So] viet bloc along with Poland, the] first Warsaw' Pact country with!I primarily noh-Communist ernment. The old party decided in Sep | tember to begin dismantling iit government chapters, and thtj ministries of the interior, finance and trade and commerce alreadv [ have been formally depoliticized After more than four decade | of rewritten history, there are plans to write it again — this time reflecting events independent of Marxist coloration. ‘Presleynost’ reaches U.S. Soviet artist gets exit visa to visit Graceland BOSTON (AP) — “Presleynost” reached U.S. shores Sunday when a Soviet Elvis fan stepped off an airplane in blue suede shoes, clutching an exit visa issued solely for a visit to Graceland, the Memphis, Tenn., home of his hero. Kolya Vasin, 44, an artist, sculptor and rock impresa rio from Leningrad, said he’s been an Elvis fan since hearing a bootleg copy of “Jailhouse Rock.” Visiting Graceland will be the culmination of a 30-year dream, he said. “I listen to ‘Jailhouse Bock’ for the first time in 1958. After this shocking moment, I love Elvis forever,” said the long-haired, bearded Vasin, who wore bluejeans, a Because his voice, his spirit is God to me. All the good feelings of the human race come out of Elvis.” — Kolya Vasin, Soviet Elvis fan black Elvis T-shirt, a yellow scarf and a blackjacket. Vasin arrived at Logan International Airport in Bos ton with 79 Elvis fans from Great Britain. He spent a week in London after leaving Oct. 7 on his first trip out side the Soviet Union. The group was to leave for Mem phis later Sunday. Vasin said his obsession with Elvis is simple. “Because his voice, his spirit is God to me,” he said. “All the good feelings of the human race come out of Elvis.” He pointed to his shoes and said: “I got the shoes in London. This is my dream on my feet. All my life I hear ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ and I dream about them.” Vasin’s visit, called “Presleynost” in honor of “glas- nost,” or policy of openness promulgated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, is being sponsored by Eld'I Yours, a London-based Elvis fan club with a mailingtj of 60,000, club president Sid Shaw said. Elvis h'J raised the $3,500 for Vasin’s trip, he said. Every year, Elvisly Yours pays for several icapped children to accompany the group on a trip Graceland. Shaw, who has been to Graceland 36t said he decided to find a Soviet fan to sponsor. In his quest, he found an expert on rock n’ rollnui'’ in the Soviet Union at the BBC who told him f was the biggest Elvis fan in the country. “He’s the Colonel Parker of the Soviet Union,''Sb'l proclaimed. “He’s a living legend in the Soviet Union Parker was Presley’s longtime manager. Vasin said he had tried to get an exit visa for a I with no luck. But when he was approached by Elvi' I Yours, his luck changed. The club arrranged for ;: l American Elvis club, Suspicious Minds, toextendam I vitation to Vasin through Soviet authorities. As at he was finally granted a visa. During his 10-day visit in the United States, U plans to visit Sun Records, Elvis’ first recording' Memphis, and Elvis’ birthplace in Tupelo, Miss. Vasin said he arranges about five rock concerts a in the Soviet Union. He said he paints, writes and sculpts, but his major interest is rock — andElviy “All I want is to love rock and roll,” said Vasin,'’ carried with him a charcoal drawing he did of Elvis- sit in my very small room and listen to rock ’ri roll" 1 my friends and drink vodka.” Vasin said he bought all his Elvis records on theI market. The first Elvis record was sold legally this vfi j he said. 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